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Shift in US parents' roles: study

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - 05:50

The national debate seems to be shifting from whether mothers should work to how policies could help working parents manage.

PHOTO: AFP

New York

EVEN though 70 per cent of mothers and 93 per cent of fathers have jobs, Americans' attitudes about working parents - mothers as caregivers, fathers as breadwinners - have been remarkably slow to change.